As a high school student, Catherine “CJ” Koozer worked at Camp Courageous, a facility near Monticello, IA, for children and adults with disabilities. Last year, she joined pediatricians from Des Moines’ Blank Children’s Hospital for 10 days of treating poor […]
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Kari Nies Smith, P.T., D.P.T., BCB-PMD, received the DMU’s Outstanding Faculty Service Award on Aug. 12. She and her son Carter also won in their age groups at the five-kilometer Run DMU on Sept. 11. She is associate professor of
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Amy Coulthard-Atwater, D.O.’04, and husband Scott are the proud parents of daughter Allison Elizabeth, born Oct. 29, 2015. She joins big brother Rodney at home. Amy continues to work for Aurora Health Care in Kaukauna, Wi.
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More than 200 DMU students, employees, alumni and friends took the challenge to Run DMU on September 11. Runners and walkers warmed up with a pre-race yoga session and nourished their tired bodies after five tough kilometers with food, refreshments and
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Jayna Hoover, D.P.T.’15, hopes to eventually return to rural Kossuth County, IA, where she grew up. “The area has predominantly male physical therapists. Last winter, I began contemplating, ‘What can I bring to the area?’” She wasn’t thinking about just
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Ronald Bergman, D.O.’76, M.D., FICS, FAACS, and Bryan Folkers, D.O.’04, FACOS, both love practicing in their specialty and teaching future surgeons. That motivated them to take on the meetings, paperwork and processes of another labor of love: creating a new plastic and
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Lee C. Rogers, medical director of the Amputation Prevention Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, CA, and his colleagues are using a new tool to heal diabetic foot ulcers and prevent amputations. The device is an epidermal graft
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Amy Coulthard-Atwater and Scott Atwater are proud to announce the birth of their son, Rodney Michael Atwater, born June 24, 2014.
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Name:Kari Smith, D.P.T., ATC Title:Clinic Manager/Assistant Professor Clinic:Physical Therapy Clinic Undergraduate School:South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota Medical School:Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa Additional Degrees/Training:BCIA: Board Certification in Biofeedback-Pelvic Muscle DysfunctionAPTA: Certificate of Achievement in Pelvic Physical TherapyNATA: Certified Athletic Trainer
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Folkers has been named program director for the new Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. A physician with Bergman Folkers Plastic Surgery in Des Moines, he is board-certified in general, plastic, reconstructive and hand
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